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How to be a Paddy on St Patrick’s Day

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And as Daddy’s Little Girl’s Scots beau gets a first burst of Dublin life here’s for the rest of you… how to be a Paddy on St Patrick’s Day.

Well, the first thing is to wear green.

And this is where it gets fun, you can pinch someone who doesn’t wear green.

And they can pinch you back!

Of course, you can go full Paddy and dress up as St Patrick in a big flowing cassock and mitre.

And accessorise with snakes, the types he is reputed to have driven out of Ireland.

For every St Patrick there is, of course, a million leprechauns.

Now you’ll need a big felt hat with shamrocks, a ginger beard and a ‘Kiss Me, I’m Irish’ tie.

Sláinte all

Now, onto the eating and drinking.

The time was in Catholic Ireland that St Patrick’s Day was the one day during your 40-day Lenten fast.

That you could break that fast and hit the gargle.

Of course in these less churchy days few give up the ales all 40 days.

So today is just an invitation to partake more.

And it must be Guinness with a shamrock drawn on the foam.

Party on

While there’s a nod to the past in eating corned beef, bacon and cabbage.

Although coddle, a sausage, rashers and veg stew is more Dublin

Now the Irish are in the middle of their week of the year.

And are extending their Cheltenham Festival festivities and Six Nations rugby party a further day.

None of which is lost on the hostelries or drinks bands around Ireland.

And I’m reminded here of the Arthur’s Day experiment from 2009-2013 by Diageo.

When on our annual pilgrimage up to my Mum’s old homestead of Brockagh, Co. Donegal, we lunched in her old bar, the Ramblers.

And I asked the owner Con what the regular at the bar would be doing to mark that day.

And wiping the foam off his mouth, he smiled back: ‘Same as every other day.’

Of course, like all national days there is an amplification of traditional music.

Crazy World

But if you want some insider knowledge on how to be a Paddy on St Patrick’s Day then do like the locals.

And get into a bar where there will deffo be a pub singer singing Aslan’s Crazy World.

And be part of the Paddy’s Day party… it’s all right, it’s all right.

Countries, Europe

Live like Cristiano Ronaldo in Madeira

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They put their greatest-ever son a pedestal on the island of his birth but you too can live like Cristiano Ronaldo in Madeira.

All of which I learned when the Madeirans rolled into town… that town being my old stomping ground of Dublin.

Where one of the highlights of the year, the Meet the Media networking event takes place at the central Radisson Blu on Golden Lane.

And where we billet down for the night after our meetings at the convenient Maldron Hotel on Kevin Street.

A familiar and friendly hotel it has decided for reasons best known to itself not to line its corridors with green fake grass.

Not that Dublin doesn’t have football heroes of its own in Johnny Giles, Liam Brady and Robbie Keane.

CR7 heaven

It’s just that Cristiano Ronaldo looms larger than anybody else even if our Madeiran mates accept his statue is not a very true likeness.

Cristiano, of course, has his own hotel with chain Pestana here we grew up in humble circumstances.

Next naturally to his museum and branded as is his way with the CR7 logo.

You might have seen too other CR7 hotels in Lisbon and Madrid, where he also played, and New York.

The Body Beautiful

Now, of course with the CR7 endorsed by the Great Man himself you won’t be surprised to know that he puts the Body Beautiful to the fore.

And so there’s a distinctive “pink-coloured pool” in his Madeiran haven on the rooftop to unwind.

And take, as they put it, the most epic photographs which you’ll want to share on your feed.

As well as hanging out in a sauna and open-air jacuzzi to enjoy some more.

CR7 also challenges us here to work out at the open-air gym with training sessions designed by thew footballer.

Best CR7 bar none

And as the day comes to an end, experience the best sunsets on the island at the Off-Side Rooftop Bar.

Where you can sample the best Portuguese wines although probably out of eyeshot of Cristiano, famous teetotalller that he is.

Like the Portuguese god I had to swear off the grape too when I won the prize at the event, three bottles of vintage wine.

Which, of course, I wouldn’t have been able to take through customs

But my hosts will be able to toast me in my absence.

Now Cristiano Ronaldo is, of course, a gateway into Portugal’s biggest island.

A lush haven where you’ll want to sharpen up hiking and cycling.

And also paying homage to CR7 at his museum next to the hotel where you can worship at his altar.

Which make no mistake they do, as we found out when we went to holy site Fatima on the mainland.

And found among the statues of Our Lady on the tables a beach towel to CR7.

So the best advice is to just give in and live like Cristiano Ronaldo in Madeira for €127 a night.

Countries, Food & Wine, Ireland

Guinness Dublin’s green and white Christmas

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Even in the home of the black stuff they’re dreaming of Guinness Dublin’s green and white Christmas.

You’ll see I’ve Christmas cribbed from Guinness’s enduring festive advertising and am happy to do so.

And, of course, we put caressing a pint (or gargle, my collective noun) of plain at the centre of our Christmas carousing.

We learned to in, of all places at the Ri Ra Irish bar in Las Vegas.

Now the best place to sup your Guinness is Ireland and while we all have our fave bars there’s only one Guinness Storehouse.

Where you get the panoramic view from their Gravity bar, the top floor of their seven storeys.

But don’t take my word for it (well do) but American Presidents (and their governor pals) and British royalty have all sipped the stout.

Kodaline high hopes

Some, of course, going the full hog to don a white foam moustache.

This year Guinness Storehouse in the capital’s Liberties district is pushing its already excellent green credentials.

By dressing up the Christmas tree with 1759 lights, soundscaped decorations and a festive menu of Irish produce.

The recently awarded Leading Tourist Attraction in Europe has collaborated with multi-media talents, Farouk Alao, Sorcha O’Higgins and Ger Clancy, as well as Jason Boland (Kodaline), who has created an original piece of music.

Sorcha’s artwork represents the Guinness Storehouse through the ages – an industrial past, an iconic present, and a technicolour future.

While Ger Clancy’s take on the iconic St James’s Gates makes for the perfect backdrop to festive photos this season.

Tunnel of love

Friends in high places: With former Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe

This year, visitors can interact with a cinematic experience that uses cutting edge technology to breathe new life into stories and photography from the Guinness Archives.

Curated by Nigerian Irish multi-disciplinary artist Farouk, each scene uses motion technology to invite visitors to explore, capture and share moments of festive celebration with friends and family during their tour.

One of the first visual installations that consumers will see is the dramatic tunnel, which sits beneath the Guinness Storehouse Christmas tree featuring those 1759 lights as a nod to the year Guinness began.

And reframes the 9,000-year lease signed by Arthur Guinness.

Guinness with it all

There are seasonal experiences to marvel at and excite the senses behind St. James’s Gate this Christmas.

A giant bauble display fills the building, perfect for capturing a story for Instagram, while pop-up live entertainment during the holidays will help visitors create special memories.

Of course the stout is at the centre of everything in the Storehouse.

So enjoy the best artisan producers like Kish Fish and Medialuna, Irish cheese producers, the spiced beef sandwich, and Mulled Guinness and Guinness smoked salmon.

Meaning you can take a taste of the Guinness Storehouse from our home to yours this Christmas.

Guests can also upgrade to the STOUTie or Academy experiences, both available as optional extras when booking on the Guinness Storehouse website for the ultimate day out in Dublin over the festive break.

Christmas at the Guinness Storehouse is included in each experience ticket.

Make a date

The law of Gravity: At the top of the Storehouse

EXPERIENCE DATES: Wednesday November 22^nd – Friday 5^th January

OPENS: 10am

PRICES: Start from €24 per adult

Countries, Ireland

The driver of a train

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Time flies by when you’re the driver of a train, the Chigley version rather than the Half Man Half Biscuit version.

Because whatever else changes in the world kids (and big kids alike, like my father-in-law Casey Jones) always love pulling the levers or pushing the buttons.

In the booths and cabins of planes. (back in the day), trains and cruise ships.

Don’t let kids (or often big kids) at your car, particularly if it’s your classic Fiat Cinquecento on the French Riviera.

But we should always be encouraged into the driver’s seat as part of any excursion which has transport at its heart.

Behind the wheel

Cherry on top: Cherry Tree Hill, Barbados

And thankfully my efforts at the wheel were just for fun.

On Princess Cruises in Dublin, or the highest train in Europe, the Jungfraujoch In Switzerland, or a steam engine in Barbados.

Or the flight stimulator in Turkish Airlines Headquarters in Istanbul where I crashed the plane into the Hudson while trying to land at JFK in New York.

Of course, we don’t have to go to foreign climes to enjoy being in the driver’s seat, it’s just that we deserve it.

Because we have those treats right at hand.

Model Malahide

While if you’re lucky enough to live in Dublin, are visiting, or have rellies living there.

Then you can get your ticket to ride the Casino Model Railway Museum this midterm.

And it and the Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg have turned me into the kind of gricer old Casey Jones, my father-in-law would be proud.

You’ll drive a life-sized Iarnród Éireann train at the Casino Model Railway Museum in Malahide.

At its Children’s Interpretative Centre. Adult €7.50 Child €5.00 Family €22.00 (2+2) Student & Seniors €6.00.

It’s housed in the restored Casino ‘Cottage Orné’ in the heart of Malahide, north of the city.

DART hits the mark

The attraction maximises technology, with layered sights and sounds and digital screens.

On the windows of the carriage to help add to the experience.

These interactive elements deliver an educational experience filled with energy and momentum as the DART journey unfolds.

The DART you say, it’s the renowned Dublin Area Regional Transport train service we came to rely on in our 13 years in Ireland.

And there were plenty of times on my way home from Dublin to Greystones that I wished I’d been the driver of a train.

Countries, Ireland

Winter in Dublin

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Cult Irish band Bagatelle famously ‘remembered that summer in Dublin’, more recently Fáilte Ireland have been promoting Winter in Dublin.

For me in my 13 years an Irishman there were a couple of white Christmases.

And I remember one Snowmageddon and a slippy Leeson Street when I slipped and fell.

Dublin, and Ireland, in truth has never been as prepared as Northern countries for icy grips.

And the sight of Beamers (BMW( abandoned on the dualler (dual carriageway).

En route from plush rugby central Ballsbridge through to Chez Murty in Greystones, Co. Wicklow, was commonplace.

Ariel House of Fun

Wilde stuff: Oscar Wilde in Merrion Square

Of course, winter lockdowns were fortunately rare.

Welcome when it means you get put up in the work’s local hotel, the award-winning Ariel House, for the night.

Light frosting on Herbert Park, Stephen’s Green, Merrion Square and Phoenix Park make Dublin a picturesque winter city.

And I will be wallowing in The Fair City’s winter welcome on a whistlestop trip to my old stomping ground this week.

Night fever

Pat’s the way: At St Patrick’s Cathedral

Kicking off this month and new this year, Dublin by Night Fest is a two-day festival from November 2.

Celebrating the magic of music, arts and culture in Dublin with brass bands, buskers and circus performers to a live outdoor movie screening.

For lit lovers (guilty) The Dublin Book Festival runs from November 8-12.

While later next month The Jonathan Swift Festival will be held in the ornate St Patrick’s Cathedral.

With debates, performances and immersive tours.

Here indoors

Little belter: The Little Museum of Ireland

And because it can get chilly in the winter…

You’ll no doubt visit the must-sees, The Book of Kells, Dublin Castle, the Hugh Lane Gallery, Kilmainham Gaol and ‘the Dead Zoo’ (The National Museum of Ireland’.

But a fave with locals is The Little Museum of Ireland.

This winter it is offering late night tours with a festive tipple on Thursdays, Friday’s and Saturdays through November.

While the National Gallery of Ireland, our go-to when waiting for the Scary One doing her shopping in Grafron Street is warming up for winter.

The National Gallery has after dark events including ‘Meet the Maker’, evening concerts and Spanish themed experiences.

Light up, light up

The city and many venues around it will host light events including Wonder Lights at Malahide Castle from November 10.

Wild Lights” will also return to Dublin Zoo from November 16.

And many of the events, activities and markets take place from November.

And carry all the way through December into January.

Ice, ice maybe

Which all budding ice skaters (fave family memories) in Dun Laoghaire and Blanchardstown will run well into the New Year.

So I’ll be packing my scarf in my hand luggage and taking a deep breath to inhale again the Irish air and my winter in Dublin.

Countries, Europe, Ireland, UK

Ich bin feminine Hamburger

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All you single ladies, all you single ladies we bring you the safest cities in Europe… ich bin feminine Hamburger.

All courtesy of Kipling… no, not them but the other ones who make exceedingly good luggage.

And that party city jewel of the North Sea, Hamburg, comes top of their crop for single ladies to go a-travelling.

Power to your Elbe

The Solo Female Traveller City Index tells us that Hamburg scores for group activities, attractions, accommodation and more.

They tell us the best ways to explore Hamburg is by foot or bicycle along its picturesque canals.

And if you really want to be ein Hamburger.

Then walk or bike through the Old Elbe Tunnel, the most visited attraction in Germany’s second city.

Speicherstadt is the world’s largest warehouse district and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Where my own fraulein was happy to be on the other side of the lens for once.

Blankenese is recommended as a non-touristy spot.

A charming village spot to spend a few hours exploring solo.

And spotting fishermen’s houses, seaside view restaurants and outdoor theatre shows.

Munich Shefest

Now I can vouch for the second city on the list, also German, as I set off on my own for Oktoberfest in Munich.

And was taken under der wing of a busload of Aussies and Kiwis.

Out of Oktoberfest Munich is still, probably more, an easy city to get around.

With a network of trams and buses with the average one-way trip costing £3.11.

Making it straightforward to visit the city’s iconic spots, including Munich’s iconic Nymphenburg Palace or New Town Hall.

Queen of Scots

Our own wee capital city, Edinburgh, in our own wee Scottish country is also highlighted by Kipling.

They quite rightly want you to get your walking shoes on and hike up Arthur’s Seat for stunning views.

Wandering through the UNESCO heritage site of New Town.

Or take a stroll through the world-leading Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh for 72 acres of beautiful scenery.

Of course my girls, one an adopted Scot and Daddy’s Little Girl, a native Edinburgher, join me in talking up our wee home.

So Faro, so good

Now most of us will just see Faro in the Algarve fleetingly, zipping through the airport.

Thankfully my Portugalophile friends Surinder and Carole are always quick to remind me of Faro’s charms.

Faro promises beautiful beaches, a buzzing nightlife and historic sites to explore, including its charming Old Town.

One of Faro’s best-kept city secrets is The Capela dos Ossos, ‘the Bone Chapel’, an ancient building made from the skeletons of 1,200 monks.

Travellers wishing to learn more about Faro’s history can also explore the Municipal Museum which features a range of archaeological attractions.

For a bit of beach time, head to Praia Da Ilha Deserta for 6km of unspoiled sands.

And because all women love to shop (or is that just my Scary One?) then the Forum Algarve or Rua de Santo Antônio is the place to go.

Dublin’s femme city

And we all know that it in Dublin’s femme city the girls are so pretty.

And Kipling agree and this is what they say about our old stomping ground.

Well, they want us to get on your guided bike and take in the castle… well, every good city has one.

Trinity College and the Guinness Storehouse are also must-visit destinations.

While they also suggest the Archaeology Museum, Natural History Museum and Museum of Decorative Arts.

In fact we’ll take it from here and point you to the definitive guide to Dublin… that’ll be us here.

Exceedingly good Prague

You can find the other Solo Female Traveller top tips right there on Kipling.

And we’re glad to see our favourite Prague is on there… and we’d recommend good walking boots and a spare liver.

But here’s an idea, work your way through the list… starting with Ich Bin Ein Hamburger.

Countries, Ireland

Easter Reprising

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Perhaps it’s testimony to how Modern Ireland has moved on that a fellow exec on the Irish paper I worked on didn’t know the rebels’ names… so for him here’s the Easter Reprising.

Another who worked for me thought that King Billy had won the Battle of the Boyne and passed that off jokingly as a lack of interest in history.

Ireland’s history, of course, would have been very different had its people and those of its neighbours left history where it was.

But then God did give his greatest creation a rewind button and the Irish (most of them) use it more than the pause or fast forward.

A new age

This time of year, Easter, is particularly poignant in the Land of Saints and Scholars.

With holy observance and the end of 40-day Lenten fast with family fun, beer and chocolaty children.

And remembrance of those who made a symbolic (and real) sacrifice by laying down their lives for the holy grail of Irish freedom.

Now the whys and wherefores of those six days from Easter Monday, 1916 have been addressed ever since that day.

With many considering Ireland’s unofficial poet laureate WB Yeats encapsulating it best in his retrospective piece Easter 1916.

Tour de force

Of course the Irish being the loquacious and oratory people they are.

It will surprise nobody that there is an Easter 1916 tour in Dublin for you.

Well, a number, but we’re picking out one just for you when you visit the Fair City.

Like all the best Irish tours it starts in a pub, the International Bar on Wicklow Street.

Where Scots-born James Connolly was shot dead by a British firing squad.

And you’ll finish where the heroic rebels ended their days., Kilmainham Gaol.

Tied to a chair on account of his gangrenous leg.

Walk through Dublin on any given day and you will find plaques of the fallen from those six days.

Lorcan good

And tour leader and writer on the Rising Lorcan Collins will walk you through it all.

It’s all an Easter Reprising for visitors who want to learn about the birth of the Modern Nation.

History nuts, and locals who should have listened at school and appreciate the sacrifices of those who laid down their lives for the Republic.

America, Countries, Europe, Ireland, UK

Dragging up the statue debate

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News that 70,000 fans have signed a petition to have an erection of Paul O’Grady (he’d appreciate that) put up in his hometown Birkenhead sees us dragging up the statue debate again.

Whether the proposed O’Grady statue over the Mersey from Liverpool would be of pets’ pal Paul with a beloved pooch.

Or his beloved alter ego, Lily Savage, a celebration of this towering figure would be most welcome.

We make no apologies for dredging up this contentious subject again because simply put statues are a fixture of every tourist’s city break trip.

And it is our mission to redress the balance.

By putting up more cultural figures on pedestals to match, replace or overtake the mystery military statues that look down on us.

Who’s a hero?

A horse, a horse: Stonewall Jackson at Manassas

Statues was all the talk in of all places Barbados a few years ago.

When the Ski Club of Virginia made their annual pilgrimage down to the Caribbean.

And our new friends from the Deep South were alerting us to the gathering storm.

Over the statues of the Confederate leaders proliferating there.

Which I saw for myself when I went out to Virginia.

And visited Manassas, site of the first fighting in the Civil War, and home to Stonewall Jackson.

And alas the fighting was to resume not long after on the streets again.

I was fortunate to illicit the opinions of those on both sides of the divide through further adventures in the Deep South.

And meet the likes of Dr Martin Luther King and his unfinished statue in Washington DC.

And Fannie Lou Hamer, the little big woman who got tired of being tired in Mississippi.

The extraordinary ordinary

In the name of dog: Greyfriars Bobby in Edinburgh

Of course for every celebrated soldier, conceited king or quaffed queen there are real heroes and heroines who have rightly been placed in marble and stone.

Such as Anne Frank in Amsterdam, Workers’ champion Jim Larkin in Dublin or devoted doggie Greyfriars Bobby in Edinburgh.

Ah yes, you’ll see the message we’re sending out here, more children, women, working-class heroes and animals.

Gay giants

And LGBTQ+ champions and more drag queens.

Our trawl of statues turns up unexpectedly and disappointingly precious few of either.

Again our beloved Ireland leads the way somewhat and in spite of its repressive Catholic past.

With the louche and lounging statue of Oscar Wilde in Merrion Square.

While he is lauded and lipsticked in his gravestone in the Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, his last resting place.

Where Wilde led, the likes of Harvey Milk, the ‘Mayor of Castro Street’ in San Francisco.

Whose bust smiles at us from its plinth in City Hall, followed.

And Greenwich Village in New York, spiritual home for the Gay Liberation Movement, made a statement with a bust to Marsha P Johnson.

All of which makes the case for more statues which truly represent the people who live among them and represent them.

Redressing the balance

Alas, here in the UK as in most places representation is in short supply.

With only Alan Turing, the decoder who helped defeat Hitler, represented long after he was vilified and criminalised for his homosexuality.

So let’s hear it for the real heroes and heroines of our society.

Those we can identify with and look up to.

And that’s who I want to be looking at it on my city breaks.

And why I’m dragging up the statue debate again.

Countries, Ireland, UK

London’s Paddy’s Day

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And it’s a racing cert that an English market town is awash with Guinness mid-March but what of down the road and a history of London‘s Paddy’s Day?

We’re all recovering from the last few days when half the population of Ireland got jinglier of pocket through four days at the Cheltenham Festival.

When their favourite, in this case Gallopin des Champs, comes romping home.

Norah’s story: Norah Casey in Trafalgar Square in 2002

Of course Paddy‘s Day has become something of a misnomer over the years.

What started out as a one-day break from Lenten sacrifices when us youngsters got to eat sweets has grown.

A weekend bender

And in these more heathen days it’s a bevvy-up that stretches out over a whole week.

Which is why Cheltenham designated March 16 as their Paddy’s Day which, of course, extended into the real day.

While March 18 at the start of Paddy’s Weekend, has become a recurring celebration of Irish rugby excellence.

Or whenever it lands.

When Ireland win the Grand Slam and in the best possible style with victory over the Old Enemy, England.

Of course, you don’t have to be sporty to indulge in Paddy’s Day revelry.

And Daddy’s Little Girl has been living it up in the Dublin of her youth (insert your own city in here).

Paddy’s Day, of course, has been celebrated around the world by ex-pats for hundreds of years.

The London Irish

Green for go: Ireland regularly win around St Paddy’s Day

But London’s St Paddy’s Day celebration is oddly and shamefully no long-held tradition.

And only within this Fiftysomething’s lifetime.

Its history too is tied up with an old travel companion and Irish businesswoman par excellence, Norah Casey.

For those of you lucky enough to still live in Ireland.

Norah is instantly recognisable from Dragon’s Den.

But she also more than made her mark in 22 years in Britain and at the helm of the Irish Post.

Not least in leaving her legacy with the first St Patrick’s Day Festival in London in Trafalgar Square in 2002 and which you can pencil in your diary for next year.

Livingston, we presume

Greening it up: Global Paddy’s Weekend celebrations

Which she organised with the-then Mayor of London Ken Livingston.

Norah informs us that it had been written into the bye laws of Trafalgar Square that no Irish gathering was to be held there.

Nor was an Irish flag permitted to fly in the square where Nelson looks down on us all.

Maybe the Admiral’s revenge for blown to smithereens on O’Connell Street, Dublin.

It had been written into the byelaws of Trafalgar Square that no Irish gathering was to be held there, nor was an Irish flag permitted to fly.

And so back in 2002 tens of thousands of Irish packed the square to hear The Dubliners and Mary Coughlan sing to the crowds.

As Norah so poignantly put it: “I don’t mind admitting that I cried.. but so did Ken and the whole team.

“Along with everyone else there, I felt so proud that finally we could celebrate being Irish in London.”

So if you’re in Trafalgar Square today as I was last week, and celebrating Ireland’s victory over England and their Grand Slam just remember.

What Norah and Ken and countless others did to ensure you enjoyed your London’s Paddy’s Day.

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Everyone’s for tennis

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It’s the hottest ticket in town at the start of the English summer when it’s everyone for tennis.

And although you might not associate the Irish with the All-England Club the same might have been said for the Scots before Andy and Jamie Murray started sweeping up and Judy extended her sideboard.

But back in the Ninenties (OK the 1990s) the Irish ruled the hallowed turf of London SW19.

Green, set and match

With Willoughby Hamilton from Kildare winning the men’s singles in 1890, Bray’s Joshua Pim from my old stomping ground of Wicklow winning in 1893 and 1894 and Kerry‘s Harold Mahony taking the title in 1896.

While Tipperary‘s Lena Rice was Ladies’ champion in 1890 and Pim and the Dubliner Frank Stoker picking up the men’s doubles title taht year too.

Now we can’t promise Irish tennis fans will see the shamrock around. either the pot with the pineapple or the plate.

But we can vouch for a smashing offer flagged up by our friends at the Irish Travel Agents Association.

Prowse about that

Travel agent Keith Prowse is offering a hospitality with hotel and hospitality packages available throughout the Wimbledon fortnight.

With a choice of Centre Court or No.1 Court tickets.

Just the ticket and you’ll be seated just yards from your tennis heroes.

Packages available throughout the tournament include accommodation and a day at The Championships on Centre Court or Court No.1.

With Hospitality in The Treehouse Hospitality area or The Lawn.

The tennis tour

Serene: Serena Williams, queen of the Centre Court

The Wimbledon Tour packages includes:

Return flight from Belfast, Cork, Dublin or Shannon to London
One-night in 4*hotel Wellington Hotel or 5* Tower Suites with breakfast
London underground travelcard for the day you attend Wimbledon
Shuttle bus transfers from Southfields Underground Station to your hospitality area, traffic depending
An official reserved seat at the Championships on Centre Court or No.1 Court
Hospitality in The Lawn or Rosewater Pavilion

Yes, everyone’s for tennis and Keith Prowse will ensure there are plenty of Irish Oles…

And Guinness alongside the Pimms on Murray Mound and Henman Hill.